Academics & Education

French ministry bashes religious symbols proposals Lawmakers adopt measures against religious symbols on parents accompanying children on school trips

(Anadolu) France’s interior minister on Wednesday criticized two legal amendments adopted by lawmakers prohibiting parents from wearing visible religious symbols while accompanying their children on school trips and allowing public swimming pools to ban “burkini” swimwear. Gerald Darmanin said the measures, approved […]

Children & Teens

Government appoints working group to decide future of Danish children in Syrian camps PM firm that six mothers cannot return, but their 19 kids should know their fate by mid-May

(Copenhagen Post) PM Mette Frederiksen and her government remain opposed to six Danish women, who voluntarily travelled to the Islamic State’s terrorist caliphate in the mid-2010s to be with their IS warrior partners, returning home from two camps in the north of […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

French ‘separatism’ bill risks discriminating Muslims: Amnesty Rights group says ‘many problematic provisions’ of the draft law, which heads to the Senate on Tuesday, should be scrapped or amended.

(Al-Jazeera) As the French Senate prepares to debate the so-called “anti-separatism” bill, human rights group Amnesty International has made a last-minute appeal for “many problematic provisions” of the draft law to be scrapped or amended. The Senate debate on Tuesday comes after […]

Law Enforcement

AFP arrest two men on terrorism charges following Brisbane and Melbourne joint operations Co-ordinated raids across Australia have led to the arrest of two men federal police allege ran a sophisticated terrorism network.

(NCA NewsWire) A sophisticated terror network funding violent extremists has allegedly been uncovered in southeast Queensland, with two men arrested by federal police. The pair were taken into custody on Thursday following a co-ordinated operation in Queensland and Victoria, and charged with […]

Government & Politics

It’s ‘absolutely essential’ Canada repatriate citizens in Syrian camps: Antonio Guterres People should have the possibility to voluntarily go back to their countries of origin, says UN chief

(CBC) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it’s “absolutely essential” countries such as Canada repatriate Canadian women and children currently being held in prison camps in Syria. Guterres made the remarks to chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton when asked if the Liberal government’s […]